Cross-posted from Scimatic I find it hard to fathom that it’s already been one year since I joined Scimatic. It’s been a great year full of exciting developments, and I think that we are well-poised to do some more great stuff in the future. In the past year, we’ve done a major project for one [...]
My passport expired in November, and I feel that I have to have a valid passport. Just in case I get The Call and have to leave the country in the dead of night. The last time I went through the process, it was a giant pain in the ass, as I had to get [...]
Even though he was convicted, I actually like former Illinois Governor George H. Ryan. He was two for three for me; he promised to fix the Hillside Strangler, and did; and then he put the death penalty on hold. So he sold fake licenses through the Secretary of State’s office. This is Illinois, after all. [...]
Cross-posted from Scimatic.com Was out at UofT’s Convocation Hall last night, where I got to listen to Malcolm Gladwell riff on, well, lots of stuff. Gladwell has always been one of my favourite writers, not only because he writes well and raises interesting questions, but also because he’s one of the only writers I know [...]
Hope all my folks and friends down in the US have a great Thanksgiving. I’d love some turkey and apple pie, so save me a slice.
It’s been non-stop election coverage around here. I’m going a bit crazy about it. But I’m going to assume the best about my friends, family and fellow Americans (even those, like me, living in another country) have done or are doing the right thing and voting for Barack Obama. Most of the people I know [...]
I worked for 16 weeks one year in Columbia, SC, with a great group of folks down at SCANA (including the guy who won $100,000 from America’s Funniest Home Videos for his quadruplets). The best contact I met there was Rick Kirkland, all-around great guy. Rick had a tradition of calling people up on Thanksgiving [...]
Cross-posted from Scimatic The Large Hadron Collider at CERN turned on last week to much fanfare. It managed to make Google’s front page image. Fortunately, they avoided this. It’s quite a technical achievement, decades in the making, and the LHC is the "undiscovered country" of experimental particle physics. However, I have mixed feelings about it. [...]
Seriously. I’m sitting in the theatre for The Dark Knight (aside: Totally Awesome. Loved it. Wicked. Go see it. Big ups to my friend Matt’s wife who was second assistant accountant on the shoot, and hence associated with something way cooler than I’ve ever done), when the trailer for The Watchmen came on. Within about [...]
Tagged comics, nerdsNow that I’ve left my job at OpenMake, I needed new business cards. But really they are more like “contact” cards as I don’t yet have a business. My wife (and the rest of the blogosphere) is a big fan of Moo Cards. And now they’ve started printing business cards in the standard sizes. So [...]